Hi Tim,
I'm sorry to whine, but I really miss my hyperCard command-F. The
cursor was positioned in the message box to type my search term,
between quotation marks, and away I went. Hit the return key for
the next hit if I don't like the item I just found. Hit the return
key as many times as I want.
It worked about the same as typing
find "confabulation"
in Rev's message box. I think Rev is somewhat slower, but I can
live with that. What I don't like is having to type the whole
darned find command, including the quotation marks.
Here is a script to do it:
go to cd "Single Line" of stack "Message Box"
put "find " & quote & quote into fld "Message Field" \
of cd "Single Line" of stack "Message Box"
put " select char 7 to 6 of fld " & quote & "Message Field" \
& quote & " of cd " & quote & "Single Line" & quote & " of stack " \
& quote & "Message Box" & quote into tCmd
send tCmd to me in 2 ticks
It doesn't set the hilite in the correct button at the top of the
message box & it doesn't set the title, but it gets you to the single
line entry, puts in the find and selects between the quotes.
The delay in selecting is required because the message box remembers
your last selectedChunk and puts that back, so I have to wait until
that has happened before over-riding it.
On my web page <http://www.troz.net/Rev/>, you will find a plugin
called "FunKey" that allows you to allocate script snippets to
certain function keys. You may find that if you attach this script to
a function key, you have exactly what you want :-)
Rev's command-F find window remains much slower than the Find
command in the message box, even if both searches are restricted to
the same stack and to field text only. I can't imagine why. I just
tested it. I searched for "Gloria" in a fairly bulky stack that
contains a lot of names. Typing find "gloria" in the message box
found four instances almost instantly.
Then I tried find "gloria" with Rev's command-F "Find and Replace"
window. I clicked "field text" only, I chose "this stack" only, and
I checked "obey dontsearch properties." It was at least 1000 times
slower, maybe 5000 times slower, or more. And, in 2.6.1, it's still
not possible to abort a search in this window once you start one.
If you accidentally start the wrong search, you could grow a beard
before it was done searching.
It is just a script, so it can be stopped by Command-period, or
whatever you usually use to stop a script.
Cheers,
Sarah
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Sarah Reichelt
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http://www.troz.net/Rev/
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